Archive for January, 2015

Admission to the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend is FREE during the month of February. The museum is a private, nonprofit museum near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The free admission has been made possible by a private sponsor.

We visited the Heritage Center for a field trip recently and had a fantastic time. This is a great offer!

Chick-fil-A is offering free hot or iced coffee during the entire month of February!

The freebie includes both small hot coffees or medium iced coffees all day long while supplies last. This offer includes the 12 ounce (small) hot or 16 ounce (medium) iced sizes. The deal is limited to one cup per person, per visit.

Smoky Mountain Alpine Coaster (located at 867 Wears Valley Road) is offering Local Appreciation Days. For those who live in the following Tennessee counties you can ride during your week of appreciation for $8 each!

Must have a different local ID per ticket purchased. Cannot be combined with other coupons and/or discounts:
January 26th-January 31st: KNOX COUNTY
February 1st-February 7th: COCKE COUNTY
February 16th-February 21st: JEFFERSON COUNTY
February 22nd-February 28th: BLOUNT COUNTY
SEVIER COUNTY IS ALWAYS $8 FOR LOCALS WITH LOCAL ID!

UPDATE: The winner is comment #19, Jessica. Thanks to all who entered!

If you’re the parent of a young child, you probably already know about the Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate & Princess Adventure coming to the Knoxville Civic Auditorium on Saturday, February 14. If you’d like to go ahead and get your tickets now to ensure the best possible seats, you can use the discount code PIRATE for $5 off per ticket. Tickets can be purchased here or by phone at 865-656-4444.

There will be two show times on Saturday, February 14, one at 2 p.m. and one at 5 p.m.

Tickets prices start at $20 (or $15 with discount code!)

Here’s the official show info:

Grab your tiaras and doubloons and join us for Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate & Princess Adventure Presented by Stonyfield YoKids Organic Yogurt. Mickey and Minnie are taking their seats too at this before-seen live show featuring your favorite characters from Disney Junior’s hit series, Sofia the
First and Jake and the Never Land Pirates. Get swept up in the excitement as Sofia and her family prepare for a royal celebration that helps us all learn the true meaning of being a princess with a special appearance from Cinderella. Then it’s off to Never Land where Jake and his swashbuckling friends Izzy and Cubby, with a little help from Peter Pan, battle Captain Hook to unlock treasure hidden inside a mysterious volcano. It’s danger and dueling on the high seas as Jake discovers what it takes to be a true hero. Filled with new music, amazing effects, thrilling action and endless surprises, your whole family will sing, shout, and soar into the action when Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate & Princess Adventure Presented by YoKids sails into your hometown.

Special bonus! Starting ten minutes before every performance join loveable Doc McStuffins for a special pre-show! You can help Doc take care of one of her beloved toys with her own special brand of love and magic. Free to all ticket holders.

And here’s a fun clip to get your kids excited about the show (as if they weren’t already!)

Thanks to the folks at Feld Entertainment for giving me tickets to give away to you all! I have a family 4-pack of passes to give away this week. If you’re not the winner, I’ll feature another giveaway soon!

Here’s how to win this week’s giveaway for a set of four passes:

Required Entry:

Leave a comment on this post and let me know who your kids are most excited to see: Jake or Sofia? That’s it!

Additional Optional Entries:

You can do each of the following things for an additional entry in the giveaway. You can only do each of these once, for a possible total of 6 entries. Please leave a separate comment for each method of entry. If you only leave one comment then you only have one entry, as each comment is numbered and I randomly choose a number. Make sense?

This giveaway ends at midnight EST on Monday, February 2. I will choose a winner on Tuesday, February 3 using random.org and will contact them via email. Giveaway open to US readers only. You must be 18 or older to enter.

Disclosure: I received passes to Disney Live for my family plus additional passes from Feld Entertainment to give away to my readers. Tickets will be mailed out to winners at the addresses provided. I cannot be held responsible for any problems with postal delivery. Feld Entertainment and The Walt Disney company are neither sponsors nor endorsers of this promotion. All opinions are my own.

UPDATE: The winner is comment #88, Nikki T. Thanks to all who entered!

The circus is coming to town! This year, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will present a show called Built to Amaze at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, and tickets are on sale now!

Here’s the official show description:

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents Built To Amaze!® is an extraordinarily engineered circus experience where Children Of All Ages™ find out what it takes to build The Greatest Show On Earth. The foundation is set with the rising anticipation of high-energy, high jinks and hilarity. The audience will be transported by the appearance of colorful circus machinery unleashed from shipping crates right before their eyes from Thursday, February 19 through Sunday, February 22. The party starts at Ringling Bros.® Presents Built To Amaze!® with the All Access Pre-show an hour before show time, where everyone is invited to join the fun on the arena floor and meet the international cast of performers. Audiences can pick up hip dance moves during the dance party, try on custom costumes, learn circus skills like juggling from the famous Ringling Bros. Clown Alley and even have the opportunity to witness and win a one-of-a-kind masterpiece created by one of the world-famous Ringling Bros. painting pachyderms!

Ringmaster Andre McClain leads Ringling Bros. Presents Built To Amaze! as the funny and mischievous circus supervisor, constructing The Greatest Show On Earth alongside award-winning comedic clown Davis Vassallo. Ringling Bros. combines the high-energy and fiery competition of basketball with the next generation of whirling unicyclists, the legendary King Charles Troupe hailing from New York City! Building it big, an amazing aerial casting act performed by the Dobrovitskiy Troupe will stun audiences as they toss and flip through the air only by the catch and release of each other’s hands while standing on a stilt-like platform. The show is Engineered for Excitement and Custom Built for Family Fun and also features a single trapeze, a crossbow act and lots more!

You can currently purchase tickets at KnoxvilleTickets.com or by phone at 865-656-4444 or 877-995-9961. Enter code MOM for $5 off! (Not valid on day of show or for VIP, VIP Floor or front row seating.) You can also buy tickets in person at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum Box Office.

I’m so pleased that the lovely folks at Feld Entertainment have given me passes to give away to you all!

I am giving away a family 4-pack of passes; these passes can be exchanged for tickets at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum box office, and are good for all reserved seating tickets except for front row and VIP tickets. You’ll want to redeem passes as early as possible to get the best seats! If you don’t win this giveaway, don’t worry, as I’ll have a number of giveaways coming up!

Here’s how to win the family 4-pack of passes:

Required Entry:

Leave a comment on this post below and let me know if you’ve ever been to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. That’s it! (If you came here from Facebook make sure you’re commenting on the website post rather than the FB post.)

Additional Optional Entries:

You can do each of the following things for an additional entry in the giveaway. You can only do each of these once, for a possible total of 6 entries. Please leave a separate comment for each method of entry. If you only leave one comment then you only have one entry, as each comment is numbered and I randomly choose a number. Make sense?

This giveaway ends at midnight EST on Monday, February 2. I will choose a winner on Tuesday, February 3 using random.org and will contact them via email. Giveaway open to US readers only.

Disclosure: I received passes to the circus for my family plus additional passes from Feld Entertainment to share with my readers. Tickets will be mailed out to winners at the addresses provided. I cannot be held responsible for any problems with postal delivery. All opinions stated in this post are my own.

You can get a FREE coupon for $5 off a Broth Bowl at Panera, plus a FREE coffee or tea, just by watching a few videos! The coupons are loaded to your MyPanera card, so you’ll want to get one of those if you don’t yet have one. (Plus when you sign up for an account you’ll get an additional coupon for a FREE pastry or Sweet in the Bakery Cafe offer added to your card!)

Just go here, sign in, and click on “Learn More” at the top under the the “How to: Eat Adventurously” banner, then watch the first 3 videos to get a $5/1 Asian-Inspired Broth Bowl coupon, which will be loaded to your MyPanera card. Then, if you watch the remaining 3 videos, you’ll get an additional offer valid for a FREE coffee, hot tea, or soda. I successfully loaded and redeemed both of these, so you shouldn’t have any problems! You must use the coupons by 1/29.

This weekend (Jan 24 & 25) you can get 20% off your entire purchase at Big Lots! You’ll need a frequent shopper card, but they’re free and you can get one easily at the register. This is an especially great opportunity to get a discount on food items!

Tomorrow (Saturday, January 24) only, you can get a year of Amazon Prime for just $72! This is a $27 discount off the regular annual price of $99. We have been Prime members for years, and I highly recommend it! We mostly use the free shipping and the free movie/TV streaming, although I’ve taken advantage of the early access to Lightning Deals a few times!

Here are some of the benefits of Amazon Prime:

Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items

Unlimited, ad-free access to over a million songs and hundreds of playlists

The circus is coming to town! This year, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will present a show called Built to Amaze at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, and tickets are on sale now!

Here’s the official show description:

Circus performers from across the globe create the perfect blend of athleticism and bravery, where power meets fearlessness and amazement has no bounds. Magnificent elephants, ferocious tigers, astonishing acrobats and awe-inspiring aerialists are engineered into one spectacular performance.

Celebrate the tradition TODAY and experience its modern flare of twists and turns where excitement and suspense are so intense you’ll be tempted to cover your eyes. From the blueprints to the band, the crates to the clowns, the hammer to the high wire, witness the spectacle as we measure out the perfect mix of marvel and majesty in an imagination equation where the impossible comes to life. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents Built To Amaze!

You can currently purchase tickets at KnoxvilleTickets.com or by phone at 865-656-4444 or 877-995-9961. Enter code MOM for $5 off! (Not valid on day of show or for VIP, VIP Floor or front row seating.) You can also buy tickets in person at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum Box Office.

I’m so pleased that the lovely folks at Feld Entertainment have given me passes to give away to you all!

I am giving away a family 4-pack of passes; these passes can be exchanged for tickets at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum box office, and are good for all reserved seating tickets except for front row and VIP tickets. You’ll want to redeem passes as early as possible to get the best seats! If you don’t win this giveaway, don’t worry, as I’ll have a number of giveaways coming up!

Here’s how to win the family 4-pack of passes:

Required Entry:

Leave a comment on this post below and let me know if you’ve ever been to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. That’s it! (If you came here from Facebook make sure you’re commenting on the website post rather than the FB post.)

Additional Optional Entries:

You can do each of the following things for an additional entry in the giveaway. You can only do each of these once, for a possible total of 5 entries. Please leave a separate comment for each method of entry. If you only leave one comment then you only have one entry, as each comment is numbered and I randomly choose a number. Make sense?

This giveaway ends at midnight EST on Monday, January 26. I will choose a winner on Tuesday, January 27 using random.org and will contact them via email. Giveaway open to US readers only.

Disclosure: I received passes to the circus for my family plus additional passes from Feld Entertainment to share with my readers. Tickets will be mailed out to winners at the addresses provided. I cannot be held responsible for any problems with postal delivery. All opinions stated in this post are my own.